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Member registration is open for summer!
Spend your summer writing! Join us for online classes in fiction, memoir, poetry, reading, the writing life, and more.
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Scribes Summer Writing Camps are open for registration!
This year, our Scribes summer camps will be held online—and to help make Scribes more accessible this summer, tuition will be pay-what-you-can.
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A place to read words, hear words, and make your own words better. We provide classes, events, and fellowships for emerging and established writers.
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Our Summer Catalog is online here!
- Organizational Storytelling with Rachel Werner: Using fiction techniques, you’ll fine-tune messaging, analyze your audience, and tell stories that will keep that audience engaged.
- Poetry & Publishing with Jeanine Walker: Generate 4-6 new poems, participate in workshop, and submit work to a literary journal for publication.
- Queering the Personal Essay with Edgar Gomez: Read essays by queer writers, then write your own and workshop them in a supportive environment.
More info is available in our online class catalog.
From The House
Transition Updates: Collaboration, commonality, and our upcoming meeting with WOCA
Posted Mon, 4/19/2021
by Rob ArnoldDear friends, Many of you have written me, wondering how Hugo House is doing during this time of transition—so I’d like to write some occasional letters to keep you all…
Teacher Feature: Danielle Mohlman
Posted Tue, 6/8/2021
by Megan GallagherHugo House instructor Danielle Mohlman is a nationally produced playwright whose works have been performed at Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and more. In April 2020,…
Genre Roulette: The Creative’s Game of Chance by Rachel Werner
Posted Fri, 6/4/2021
by Guest ContributorMy only true obsession is writing. At any given moment, I am likely starting a new poem, editing a flash fiction piece in addition to wrapping up a new beauty…